A Trivialist's Travails

Philosophia Mathematica 22 (3):380-401 (2014)
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Abstract

This paper is an exposition and evaluation of the Agustín Rayo's views about the epistemology and metaphysics of mathematics, as they are presented in his book The Construction of Logical Space.

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